Example sentences of "turned [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , Swan was at Madge Networks Ltd , where he turned the ailing business round in spectacular fashion . |
| 2 | He turned the slight bend in the road . |
| 3 | He drew back the groaning bolts and turned the rusty iron ring , and the door opened inwards with a protesting creak . |
| 4 | After the Western allies turned the western part of Germany into a sovereign state , the Soviets followed suit and the German Democratic Republic was founded on 7 October 1949 . |
| 5 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 6 | Only they could provide the extra products and services — software , peripheral hardware , maintenance , consultancy — which turned the dumb lump of beige metal into something useful . |
| 7 | Public cynicism about obscenity control was confirmed when twelve members of Scotland Yard 's " dirty squad " were jailed after conviction for involvement in what their judge described as " an evil conspiracy which turned the Obscene Publications Act into a vast protection racket " . |
| 8 | The result was chaos : their first skiing holiday ruined by the press , who turned the icy mountain roads of Liechtenstein , where they were staying , into a re-run of the Monte Carlo rally . |
| 9 | In Samuel Johnson and David Thomson , Nairn created a happy conjunction of two men who turned the factual stuff of their lives into beauty : not by great timeless plot , nor by intricate , archetypal and immortally-spoken characterisation , as Shakespeare did , but by felicity of spirit and language . |
| 10 | Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square , were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building . |
| 11 | One turned the other way on top |
| 12 | He came nearer , and the light of the June evening turned the tanned planes of his hawk-face and the ridge of the bold , importunate nose to copper , and picked out the russet reds in the short , dark beard , scoring deeper the deeply graved lines of audacity and laughter . |
| 13 | The other sentry 's trouser-leg darkened as he shakily but hurriedly turned the locking wheel set into the wall . |
| 14 | In one fell swoop he settled rumblings of discontent and turned the Labour conference , which starts today , from being an inward-looking examination of defeat into a confident bid to show the world — Brian Gould notwithstanding — an alternative to the ‘ devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government ’ . |
| 15 | Such overt aggression turned the Labour Party away from pacifism and towards the acceptance of a degree of force to implement collective security . |
| 16 | Sendei turned the final corner and emerged into a small circular space . |
| 17 | Funny thing , she thought as she turned the grubby pages , that people only seem to stop complaining when things get really bad . |
| 18 | It was he who ended the war with Athens , or perhaps turned the hot war into a cold one ( because satraps continued to subvert Athenian-supported democracies in Anatolia ) : after the Persian recovery of Egypt in the 450s Athenian aggression against Persia was checked , except for a brief campaign in Cyprus at the end of the 450s . |
| 19 | Rain had lashed the bare rocks , turned the narrow gully beneath the horses ' hooves to mud , stripped the spare trees of their flimsy leaves . |
| 20 | Says Tricia with a sigh , ‘ Forty marked the moment when I finally turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 22 | Strega turned the second lap at 475mph , six miles per hour faster than the first lap and six miles per hours slower than Rare Bear 's 1991 winning speed . |
| 23 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 24 | He turned the two sheets as if hoping to find them double-sided . |
| 25 | He leaned the Mannlicher inside against the back boards and turned the small key in the door . |
| 26 | When I turned the knurled knob , the minutehand |
| 27 | Not trees alone have owned their force , Whole woods beneath them bowed , They turned the winding rivulet 's course , And all thy pastures plough 'd . |
| 28 | Since the political division of Spain corresponded closely to that of contemporary Europe , each of the Spanish camps looked to its European counterparts for assistance , which turned the Spanish war into an international , as well as a national , conflict . |
| 29 | Through the late 1980s another force was at work which turned the Provincial sector 's fortunes further round . |
| 30 | The brilliance of its colours turned the remembered garden outside into monochrome . |